WARNING, THERE IS A SLIGHTLY GRUESOME BIT AT THE END.

Caverna didn't sleep that night, instead she stayed sat at the window of her room, watching the moon and stars, waiting until she hear the creak of her father's bedroom door or the familiar thud of Hiccup's prosthetic to see whether either of them were awake. When the sun rose, she heard her father's bedroom door open and this caused her to get up from where she was sitting and she walked out of the room, catching Stoick as he was about to go downstairs.

"Caverna, what are you doing up?" Stoick asked her in a whisper when he noticed that Hiccup and Eridor were still asleep.

"I need to talk to you and my brother." Caverna told him, her voice just a whisper as well.

"What's the matter?"

"I'll tell you soon." She told him, walking to where Hiccup was sleeping, nudging him with her foot. "Wake up Hic."

Hiccup woke up with a murmur. "What do you want Caverna, it's the crack of dawn."

"I know, but it's important." She walked over to sit at the table with him and she watched Stoick join them.

"What's up?" Hiccup asked, rubbing sleep from his eyes.

At the moment, Caverna would normally come out with something sarcastic, but now wasn't the time for sarcasm, now was the time for action and to protect her best friend.

"It's about Astrid..." Caverna started and she saw the freeze that set over her brother and she looked at her father as he spoke.

"What about her Caverna?" Stoick asked.

"Last night, I found her sat on our doorstep, she was cold, obviously having been there a while, I sat next to her, she was shaking and she had been crying, she told me that Eridor raped her last night." She told them. "And I believe her."

The revelation shocked both men into silence, though Stoick snapped out of it quicker than Hiccup did and he let out a large sigh.

"You know what must be done."

"I do, but dad I beg you to reconsider, Astrid is Hiccup's lover, you can't kick her out." Caverna told him desperately.

"Where is she?" Stoick asked.

"She's asleep in my bed, I brought her straight back here after taking her to Gothi, and she's not permanently damaged, so she will be able to bear Hiccup's heirs in the future."

"Caverna, she can never marry Hiccup now, she's broken, it's against the law for her to marry anyone, especially a chief's son, and it is the same for you."

Caverna sighed. "This isn't about me, it's about Astrid. But dad, please you can't do this to her."

Stoick sighed, just as they heard someone coming downstairs and Caverna looked up to see Eridor walking down the stairs.

"Ah, Caverna I was wondering when I was go-"He was cut off as Hiccup suddenly threw himself at him, both boys getting into a fight. It took both Caverna and Stoick by surprise, since they knew Hiccup wasn't the fighting type, but Caverna knew what Eridor was capable of. When she saw Hiccup get grabbed by the throat, she suddenly went for Eridor, picking up the heaviest thing she could and she suddenly hit him over the head, watching as Eridor hit the floor unconscious.

When she was sure Eridor wouldn't wake up, she fell at Hiccup's side and she helped him to sit up as he coughed, desperate for air. He gave off a soft noise of relief when he felt cold air fill his lungs for that second he could have sworn it felt like heaven.

"Hiccup, are you alright?" Caverna asked him, worry etched on her face and clear in her voice.

"I'm...I'm alright." He croaked, though everyone looked at the stairs as they heard someone walk down them and they saw Astrid stood there, her eyes were still a bit red from crying, and there were some visible bruising that the clothes Caverna had gave her didn't cover, but other than that, she actually looked okay. At seeing her, Hiccup pushed himself to his feet and all but ran to her, scooping her into his arms, holding her tight, and whispering that everything was going to be alright, that he wouldn't let anything happen to her from now on as well as how much he loved her. Astrid just sobbed into his chest, her arms around him, whispering that she loved him to and that she didn't want to be sent away.

Caverna looked at her father and she found him walking to the door, and he turned to look at them. "Come now, the three of you, we must go to the Great Hall, Caverna or Hiccup, bring him." He nodded to now unconscious Eridor. Caverna gave him a nod and while Hiccup held onto his girlfriend, Caverna picked Eridor up over her shoulder and she carried him off to the Great Hall following her family and best friend. The group waked in silence and she didn't seem to be struggling under the weight of Eridor, but she knew that it was going to both her later, she wasn't supposed to wear something this heavy.

They reached the Great Hall as the main people of the village gathered and she put Eridor on the floor and made sure he couldn't escape by tying some cord, that she took off of her suit, around his wrist and then around a pillar before she joined Hiccup and Astrid at the table.

"What's this about Stoick?" Spitlout asked.

"Something awful has happened." Stoick told him, before he told the group what had happened to Astrid, and they were all silent, as Hiccup, Astrid and Caverna held their breaths. However, Caverna let her head hit the table as she heard one voice that she particularly didn't want to hear.

"Well, we all must know what needs to be done, Astrid will be sent away from the village and her blasted dragon will go with her."

The vice came from Mildew and Caverna knew Hiccup was ready to snap at him this time, and she couldn't blame him, she thought her brother was kidding when he said that Mildew would try anything to get the dragons off of the island, now she knew that he wasn't kidding. Yet before either of them could say anything, a woman's voice rang out.

"Why didn't you fight back you stupid girl?" The voice was of Astrid's mother and everyone looked at the blonde Viking anticipating her answer.

"I couldn't." Astrid whispered.

"Couldn't, or wouldn't." The woman sneered. "You're nothing but a whore." Her mother told her.

At this point Astrid had burst into tears and no one but Caverna and Hiccup stayed next to her, yet Caverna let her brother do the holding and calming down as Astrid got quickly hysterical. When Astrid hit full blown hysteria, Caverna stepped in.

"Ma'am, Astrid is telling the truth, she had been training an Eridor is actually really strong, stronger than Astrid, believe me, I've felt it as we grew up together." Caverna told her, shifting her eyes from the table to look directly at the woman, Caverna's steel gaze making the woman recoil slightly. "What happened to Astrid wasn't her fault, and yes we all know what must be done, after all, after what happened to me you've all accepted me."

Everyone looked at her curiously and she noticed that Fishleg's parent were also at the gathering and suddenly her mouth went dry, before she pulled herself together and despite the obvious terror that remembering brought her, she gave them a quick lowdown of what happened to her when she was a child. This caused a sudden clap of someone's hands though it didn't take long to realise who it came from.

"Excellent, get rid of these two and their dragons for good." He looked at Stoick. "You know what needs to be done Stoick, for the good of the tribe."

Stoick looked torn, he didn't want to hurt either of his children or lose the daughter that he's only just found, before he looked up as Caverna started to speak.

"At least let us stay to watch him get dealt with." Caverna asked, looking at her father.

This seemed to please everyone except for Mildew, but right now, Stoick didn't care and he looked at his daughter. "Alright, but then, you've got to go, I'm sorry."

Astrid burst into fresh tears, but Caverna didn't bat an eyelid yet Stoick and Hiccup noticed that she was finding it hard to keep it together. From then on, Caverna was silent throughout the rest of the discussion, this time about what they should do with Eridor.

Eventually, the group decided upon beheading him, and as he woke up, they bound his hands properly and dragged him outside towards a stone. The whole village came with them and stood in front of the rock as Eridor was thrown to his knees behind it, his hands still bound. At seeing where he was and seeing some men sharpening an axe, Eridor suddenly realised what was happening and he actually started to panic, scanning the crowd in front of him for a certain pair of eyes and he soon found them. "Caverna, help me!"

Caverna looked at him, her eyes held no remorse, only hardened emotions and she walked up to stand in front of the rock, looking down at him, before he stood up to be his full height and tower over her.

"Why should I help you?" Caverna asked him.

"Because I'm still your family, Caverna." Eridor told her.

His words made Caverna laugh, though it was hard and ice cold. "You'll never be my family, but just answer me one question."

"What?" He asked her.

"Why did you do it?"

"Because, at the time, it was fun." This earned him a severe punch from Caverna.

"You think ruining someone's life is funny? Astrid and I have been kicked out of our home because of you, and what would have happened if she had ended up like me, barren, worthless, unable to move on?" She asked, her fury showing, before she grabbed his tunic and pulled him down to look her in the eye. "I hope you burn in hell, slowly and painfully, a thousand times over." She told him with a snarl, pushing him backwards into the stronger arms of another Viking, Stoick, and she walked back to the crowd. She watched him get pushed back onto his knees and his head pinned to the bock as a man stood to the side holding the now fully sharpened axe. Caverna watched as the axe fell, but just as it cut into his neck, she turned her head to the side and closed her eyes, yet she couldn't block out the sound. The sound made her stomach churn, and since she hadn't eaten breakfast yet, that wasn't a good thing. When she looked again, she found that the body had fallen off of the rock and the head had rolled towards her stopping at her feet, blood pooled at her feet and at the base of the rock, but no one moved close enough to her to retrieve the head, so instead, she walked away, letting the head finish rolling down the hill. She walked past her friends, though they all moved away from her, even Fishlegs, her heart was going to break but she refused to let anyone see. Caverna was too closed for he own good and she knew that she was going to break all too soon, and she certainly wasn't looked forward to it.